Russian President Vladimir Putin made a brazen declaration when announcing an unprovoked military assault on Ukraine on Thursday. In addition to calling on Ukrainian forces to lay down their ...

(JTA) — In launching Russia’s war on Ukraine late Wednesday night, Russian President Vladimir Putin cited a purported need for “denazification” of Ukraine, a country whose president is Jewish.

This analysis follows a recent interview given by Nikolai Patrushev, an aide to Vladimir Putin and former secretary of Russia’s Security Council, to the Russian outlet Komsomolskaya Pravda.

MOSCOW, February 24. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin said that he had made the decision to hold a special military operation in response to the address of leaders of Donbass republics.

TASS/. Denazification in Ukraine means not only cancelling the laws encouraging the Nazi ideology, it also means withdrawing any legislation that discriminates the national minority rights in ...

Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin distorts history by framing his genocidal war in Ukraine as "denazification," desecrating the Soviet army’s legacy — a victory shaped in part by Ukrainians.

"Russia's unchanging goals remain the demilitarisation and denazification of Ukraine, as well as the recognition of the existing realities on the ground," foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria ...